Spinning device for tops.



E P. LEHMANN. SPINNING DEVICE FOR TOPS.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT.19, 1911.

1,056,283. Patentd Mar. 18,1913.

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6. In a top-spinning device, a hollow main body and a hollow casing secured at each end 01' the same, in combination with a tube passing through the main body, a coiled spring arranged within said tube, secured at one end to the spinning-device and projecting with its other end beyond the spinni-ng de ice at locking-pin arrai'iged within the main body and projecting through the lower end casing, and a spring yieldingly holding the same in its projecting position.

7. In a top-spinning device, a hollow central main body and hollow casings arranged ateach end of the same, in coinlnnation with a entral tube traversing the lower easing and the main body and extending into the upper casing, the said upper casing having an opening registering With a central tube, a pin extending through the main body and into the hollow end casing, a coiled spring arranged within the central tube, secured at one end of the pin and projecting with its other end from the lower end casing, a locking-pin adapted to slide in the spinning device and projecting below the lower surface of the same and a spring for yieldingly holding the said locking-pin in its project ing position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNST PAUL LEHMANN lVitnesses:

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